A darker book than any in the series thus far with a level of sophistication belying its genre, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince moves the series into murkier waters and marks the arrival of Rowling onto the adult literary scene. While she has long been praised for her cleverness and wit, the strength of Book 6 lies in her subtle development of key characters, as well as her carefully...

In this third installment in the projected seven-volume series, Sirius Black, imprisoned for killing 13 people with one curse, escapes from Azkaban. As he heads for Hogwarts, the chilling Dementors who trail him quickly descend upon the school.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood tells the story of washed-up actor Rick Dalton. Once Rick had his own television series, a famous western called Bounty Law. But 'it ain't been that time in a long time' and now Rick's only regular parts are as the heavy, ready to be bested by whichever young 'swingin' dick' the networks want to make a new star out of come pilot season. When a talent agent...

Oh, the same goat-dereza!.. Because of her, the grandfather got rid of his sons, wife and peace, and the bunny could not enter his hut. She scared a bunny, a bear, a wolf, a fox to death... But there is one good man in the world who is not afraid of this animal. Who is he? Where did it come from?.. Only those who read this book, which was drawn with great wit by the well-known Ukrainian artist...

The events in the new novel by Andriy Kurkov and Yuriy Vynnychuk unfold in three plot sections: the Crusade of 1111, described in the Chronicle of the Knight Olgerd of Halych, the beginning of the Second World War in Lviv and Krakow, and the modern period. Who is the Virgin, and why has she been hunted for several centuries in a row, who is really the black archaeologist Oleg, and most...

Moscow, January 2013. Bunin, the Ukrainian President, has joined other heads of state in an open air swimming pool, to celebrate the Fourth Centenary of the Romanov Dynasty. Treading water, and drinking vodka with Putin, he's on top of his game and in fin

The protagonist of the novel 'Picnic on Ice' - journalist Viktor Zolotarev - receives an unusual task from a leading newspaper: to write obituaries about famous influential people who ... are still alive. Gradually, he realizes that he has become a partic

Harry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a reclusive intellectual for whom life holds no joy. He struggles to reconcile the wild primeval wolf and the rational man within himself without surrendering to the bourgeois values he despises. His life changes dramatically when he meets a woman who is his opposite, the carefree and elusive Hermine. The tale of the Steppenwolf culminates in the surreal...